CONTENTS 



OF THE 



SIXTEENTH VOLUME. 



I. Jxesearckes respecting the Organization of Leaves. By 

 A. JuRiNE, Member of the Society of Physics and Na- 

 tural History at Geneva 3 



II. A general Fiew of the Coal Mines tvorked in France, 

 of their different Products, and the Means of circulating 

 them. By C. Lefebvre, Member of the Council of 

 Mines, of the Philomatic Society, &c. &'c 15 



III. Observations and Experiments on the Light emitted by 

 rotten IVood in the different Kinds of Gas, and in Fluids. 

 By C. W. Bock MAN, of Carlsruhe ^ 18 



Iv^ Cjf the general Relation between the Specific Gravities 

 and the Strengths and Fuhies of Spirituous Liquors, and 

 the Circumstances by ickich the former are influenced 2(5 



V. On the Quantity of Iron iji Cotton and Linen Cloth: Evil 

 Iff'ccts, simple Means of eradicating, &fc.: and Observa- 

 tions on Bleaching, the Result of long Experience. By Ni- 

 cholas GniJsisHAWj Escj. Member of the Dublin Society 



33 



VI. Of the Herring Fishery. Translated from an Essay 

 in Dutch, entitled " Eeschryving van de Haringvis- 

 sclierye" 40 



VII. On the Boiling Point of Mercury, and the Fixing 

 Points of Lead and Tin. By Mr. James Crichton, 

 of Glasgow 48 



VII r. On the new Planet Pallas. By Baron Vo^s Zach 49 



IX. On the Management aud Improvement by Tillage of strong 

 icet Loams in which the Clay greatli/ predominates 52 



X. Observations on some Insects little known. 5y M.Meyer, 

 (f Gottingen GO 



XI. Miscellanies in Natural hUstory : viz. An Improve^ 

 went in the System of the Mammcdia ; Observations on 

 a living Opossum ; and an Account of the third Generation 

 of the Porcupine Man. By Professor Blumenbach . . 63 



XII. yl Survey and Report of the Coasts and Central High' 

 lands of Scotland; made by the Command of the Right 

 Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's 

 Treasnry in the Autumn of 1802. By TliOMAS Tki.- 

 I'or.D, Civil Fmgineei-, Ldiuburgh, F. R. S 75 



XIII. On the Theory of Combustion 81 



XI\'. Observations on the Processes of Tanniug. By Mr. 



Oavy . B2 



X\'. Notices ri'specting New Books B5 



X\'r. Proceedings of Learned Societies 8}) 



XVI f. Inlelli'jencc and Miscellaneous Articles 91 



Vol. XVI^No. 64. a XVIII. Q/j 



